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Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

One of the world’s foremost authorities in terrorism and conflict analysisis. He is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD) in London, and an Associate Tutor in the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton. He is the bestselling author of The War on Freedom: How & Why America was Attacked: September 11, 2001, 2002, one of the first books to critique the official narrative of 9/11 which won him the Naples Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award, in 2003.

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Unworthy victims

Western wars have killed four million Muslims since 1990

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

London (United Kingdom) | 11 April 2015

Landmark research proves that the US-led ‘war on terror’ has killed as many as 2 million people, but this is a fraction of Western responsibility for deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last two decades

Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

21 June 2014

At the end of the Cold War, a scandal rattled universities in the United States: renowned teachers and research laboratories were secretly funded by the Pentagon. On one hand, their expert opinions were tainted and, on the other, their research was oriented towards military applications. This (…)

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

London (United Kingdom) | 15 November 2009

The myth that Islamic fundamentalist militants are the enemies of Israel and Western governments no longer needs debunking. In his latest work, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed provides a concise summary of the deep politics of the ’War on Terror’ spanning several decades and continents. Articulated (…)

Setting the U.S. Trap for Saddam Hussein (Part 2)

The 1991 Gulf Massacre

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

London (United Kingdom) | 8 November 2009

In the second part of his study Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed offers a behind-the-scenes account of the 1991 Gulf War revealing that, contrary to conventional opinion, there exists considerable evidence to indicate that the Gulf War had not only been anticipated by the United States, but fell well (…)

The Historical & Strategic Context of Western Terrorism in The Gulf (Part 1)

The 1991 Gulf Massacre

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

London (United Kingdom) | 28 October 2009

From one of the world’s foremost authorities in terrorism and conflict analysis, this masterful study - published by Voltaire Network in two parts - dissects the structure of Western policy in the Middle East. Based on an historical perspective of the Iran and Iraq cases, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed (…)